"We need to promote a new understanding, so that gardens won't be considered as sheer objects any more, but as something living over time, and thanks to a gardener's care, and thus intimately connected to the life of plants and animals and the whole ecosystem. This is the essence of gardening, though, unfortunately, so often completely ignored. What happens is that considerable amounts of money are spent over new developments, only to find out that no funds will be available to keep them and to train gardeners so that they may acknowledge such complexity - and this is awful"